Modern Art & Design Auction

December 7, 2008

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The December 7, 2008 auction will feature over 580 outstanding lots of paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture and other decorative objects.  This auction promises to showcase an extraordinary collection of work from the world’s most renowned Modern artists from 1935 to 2005.

This auction’s premier selections include: Diego Giacometti coffee table and pair of lamps, which are an extremely rare set custom executed 1972 from the original owner, Isamu Noguchi glazed ceramic sculpture, Executed circa 1950, with historical provenance, Andy Warhol Marilyn, Color lithograph, and a large selection of ceramics by Gertrud & Otto Natzler.

    • Lot 209
    • Diego Giacometti
    • “Grande  Torsade” (Twisted Cable) Coffee Table
    • Studio, this example created by 1973
    • Bronze
    • Signed with cast signature 8 times (one per Bronze beam)
    • Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by Jack and Josephine Cooper, Upper Belgrave Street, London by way of introduction through David Milnaric (Interior Designer); thence by descent.
    • Literature: Diego Giacometti: Catalogue de l’ouvre, Editions Eolia, 1986, pgs 87-89; for a similar example: Diego Giacometti, Boutonnet and Ortiz, 2003, pg 66-67.
    • Estimate $150,000 – $200,000
    • Realized $216,000
    • Lot 1
    • Claire Falkenstein
    • Custom Hanging Screen
    • Commissioned in 1958 for a California residence
    • Welded Bronze with colored glass orbs
    • 70.25″h x 60″w
    • Estimate $25,000 – $35,000
    • Realized $42,000
    • Lot 326
    • Gertrud & Otto Natzler
    • Tall Vase
    • Studio, executed 1962
    • Turquoise crater glaze
    • Signed and with label “MO42″
    • 14″h
    • Estimate $15,000 – $20,000
    • Realized $18,000
    • Lot 15
    • Richard Anuszkiewicz
    • Untitled (Orange Family C.245)
    • 1969
    • Acrylic on panel
    • Signed and dated verso; Sidney Janis Gallery label verso
    • 18″ x 18″
    • Estimate $10,000 – $15,000
    • Realized $16,800
    • Lot 174
    • Michael Arntz
    • Monumental “Garden Pot” Sculpture
    • Studio, executed circa 1966
    • Thick earthenware slab with deep cuts (or ravine-like carved inclusions) with low relief floral forms
    • 29″h x 34″diameter
    • Illustrated: Craft Horizons, January/February 1967
    • Estimate $10,000 – $15,000
    • Realized $12,000